[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#689025: slapd: chokes on unresponsive syslogd

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Friday, September 28, 2012 2:19 PM +0200 Dominik George 
<nik at naturalnet.de> wrote:

> Package: slapd
> Version: 2.4.31-1
> Severity: important
>
> The slapd process hangs when sending log data to an unresponsive syslogd.
>
> In out site setup, all servers log to a central MySQL database through
> rsyslog. rsyslog becomes unresponsive when having too much data queued,
> which happened when the line to the log server came down for a loner time
> period several times last week. rsyslog then refuses to accept any new
> logs before commiting all queued messages to MySQL.
>
> Although this is possibly an rsyslog bug, slapd should not run into a
> freeze due to that. It didn't even come back up after syslog
> functionality had been re-established.

A full GDB backtrace of all threads would be useful for examining this 
issue any further.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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